Elgar 2. Boult/ LPO
June Tabor and the Oysterband. Freedom and rain.
(while cooking Seattle Style Salmon steaks, to add a domestic touch !!)
Elgar 2. Boult/ LPO
June Tabor and the Oysterband. Freedom and rain.
(while cooking Seattle Style Salmon steaks, to add a domestic touch !!)
First Act finished. Marvellous stuff! Wonderful choruses. Sadly I must go to the pub, so I can't stick around for act 2!!
"A system of proportions in the service of spiritual impulse."
Rubbra symphonies 3 & 4 / Hickox.
Parry symphonies 3 & 4 / Bamert.
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time".
W. H. Auden
Throughout the day:
Sibelius (sorry, Rob!): Lemminkainen Suite; Karelia Suite; En Saga; Finlandia; Overture in E major; Snofrid;First Symphony. Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Vanska; BIS.
BRITTEN : WAR REQUIEM ( RFH 8/5/05 )
Christine Brewer (sop) ; Anthony Dean Griffey (ten) ; Gerald Finley (bar)
London Philharmonic Orch & Choir / Tiffin Boys' Choir
Kurt Masur (cond)
Ravel.
Sonatine/Valses Nobles/pavane ..../Gaspard. Paul Crossley.